Most people don’t know, but my roots are from Iran. Growing up, our dinners were basically political roundtables. Before my dad passed, his biggest dream was to see Iran as a strong, independent country. Not one stuck in endless power games, but a nation that leads with culture, science, and soul.

Old Paradigm: Intelligence = proximity to intelligence. Schools, elite jobs, networks; they were distribution hubs for high-fidelity pattern recognition.

AI Shift: Pattern matching is now a commodity. GPTs can do in seconds what elite institutions trained for decades. The moat is gone.

Not achievements but speed of development is what matters. I got curious how Starship’s development speed stacks up against Falcon. Surprisingly, Starship isn’t clearly faster. It made me wonder: What metrics does SpaceX use to measure development speed?

I am not an AI doomer:

Phase 1: The Apprentice Era (deployed today)
Humans make the data. AI trains on it. AI predicts. Humans take the prediction and do something useful. Think master and apprentice. AI sharpens tools. Human swings the hammer.